Priscilla Quotes

“I have their letters in front of me, three from Priscilla and one from Winnie. Together, they dramatise the proverb: ‘When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
― Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (P.S.

“Two hours later, at 11.22 p.m, a large bell started tolling: the 13-ton Gros Bourdon of Notre Dame – the first time that Priscilla had heard its F-sharp since 1940. Soon, other church bells rang out over the darkened rooftops. The sound reached the Hôtel Meurice where General Choltitz, Military Commander of Greater Paris, was speaking to Berlin. He held the telephone to the window just as, five years before, an English correspondent had raised her receiver to catch the grinding of German tanks crossing the Polish border. Choltitz explained: ‘What you are hearing is that Paris is going to be liberated and that Germany without doubt has lost the war.”
― Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (P.S.

“Phantom Conspiracy,”
― Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

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― Nicholas Shakespeare, Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France